Comments on: Choose your Lifestreaming Service Carefully. Swurl.com is No More

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:00:02 +0000

Yea, it's a tough call Patricia on what strategy to take regarding your Lifestream. I like taking two separate approaches. First I think it's a good idea to create one that is self-hosted using one of the many solutions available out there. Secondly find a Lifestreaming service(s) that you like to use more as a socialstream that serves two purposes. To both interact with other users Lifestreams as well as share content you're interested in.

By: patriciamuller

patriciamuller — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:48:01 +0000

Wise words. I'm using Storytlr and fully enjoying it. I even set up custom domain a few hours ago, but this post is now making me have second thoughts. Maybe we're all better off with WordPress lifestream plugins – there's always the risk of some data loss depending on how you set it up, however, at least you're in control of your lifestream by choosing that option.

I agree it was pretty inconsiderate of the owners of Swurl to simply wipe the service off with no in advance warning to users. I guess “you get what you pay for”, however, respect and consideration should be standard behavior IMO.

By: howardshippin

howardshippin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:24:47 +0000

Another one on the way?

Profilactic seeking buyer/partner
February 24, 2009: The staff here at Profilactic.com is winding down development and we are looking for any parties that would be interested in purchasing www.profilactic.com and keep the concept going.

By: howardshippin

howardshippin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:59:55 +0000

Those are just two examples but nowadays many people have some pretty complicated workflows where they use a source service to move or sync data amongst various other services (fodder for another post I need to write).

Yes - this could be useful. I have tried a couple of ways but I'm still not completely happy. The problem is that it would be hard to write a recipe since no one uses exactly the same combination of services.

http://blog.hieronymouse.com/?p=32, http://blog.hieronymouse.com/?p=19

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:49:56 +0000

More evidence everyone should self host their activity stream output on Google App Engine or Amazon cloud services – then link to others via Google Friend Connect or other DiSo compliant substrates.

By: Chris Jobling

Chris Jobling — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:42:45 +0000

Thanks for the namecheck and the implicit introduction to Disqus which I've added to my Blog now.

By: orangepascal

orangepascal — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:59:15 +0000

I think self-hosted lifestreaming is the best solution. Atleast until there is really one big company that runs a lifestreaming service (like blogger and wordpress are now big enough to trust your blog to) with enough modification possible.

I eventually ended up writing my own self-hosted-stream-blog code-thingie-stuff (http://pascal.orangepixel.net/) , but there are others out there that can be tweaked to your personal taste. And isn't that an important aspect of your personal lifestream: not some generic service with look and feel, but a personality that suits you?

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:16:20 +0000

Thanks for the info and link. I added that as an update to the post as well as news about Dandelife which is fairly recent as well.

By: Snook

Snook — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:26:38 +0000

Profilactic appears to be struggling as well.

http://www.profilactic.com/blog/2009/02/profila...